Bug#376157: exim4-config: fails to deliver root mail

[Daniel Bonniot]

Hi,

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376157

I understand this bug resulted from a misconfiguration. Problem is, it's not 
that hard to fall into this situation (the submitter did it, and I did it too), 
and the results are quite severe, like root mails being lost, and not so easy to 
debug for a non-guru.

Couldn't something be done to try to prevent this situation? What about adding 
the value of /etc/mailname to the list of local domains? Either automatically 
and silently (any downside to this?) or at least make it the default value in 
the debconf question about local domains.

Daniel